Nuvora
Est. 2026
Pricing
Nuvora/About
§ 01Origin
Filed under → Oakland, CA · June 12, 2024

Nuvora began with a refund request — the one a friend filed after a quarterly auto-renew for a GLP-1 she’d never been asked about, from a clinician whose name she’d never learned.

Three months into treatment she’d lost weight, gained hair loss, and had a question about side effects that sat unread in a chat window for nine days. When she asked to speak to a clinician, the reply came from a shared inbox. When she asked for her lab history, the reply came from a different shared inbox.

This is not a story about a bad company. It is a story about a category that optimized for the prescription and forgot the person. We thought modern care could be the opposite — a clinician you could name, a plan you could read, a reply you could count on. Nuvora is our attempt to build that.

Founded
March 2025
Licensed
46 states
Team size
28
First member
April 2025
Backed by
Individual clinicians, mostly
§ 02Why Nuvora is not the others

The industry we entered made specific choices. We made different ones.

DimensionThe typical telehealth playbookNuvora
Who writes your plan
A rotating pool of clinicians; your answers get templated.
One named clinician; the same name on every reply.
Time to first response
3–7 days, sometimes via a shared inbox.
Within 24 hours. A person, not a macro.
What you can buy
An escalating ladder of add-ons, each more urgent than the last.
One plan. Zero upsells. Supplements are mostly not recommended.
When you're declined
Rare — declines reduce conversion.
Roughly one in four. We'd rather lose the customer than issue the wrong plan.
What "cancellation" looks like
A dark pattern, a chat bot, a retention offer.
One click in your portal. Takes effect the end of the month. Done.
How we get paid
Per prescription, often with supply-side kickbacks.
A flat membership. The clinician's pay is not tied to what they write.
§ 03The two who signed the lease

Small company. Specific people. No executive team page longer than this one.

Chicago → Oakland
Dr. Melissa Okafor, MD
Co-founder · Clinical director

Board-certified internist, seven years at a large IDN, four years running a private weight-medicine panel. Wrote the Nuvora clinical handbook; still reviews a fraction of every week's intakes herself.

Seoul → Oakland
Jun Park
Co-founder · Operations

Previously product lead on a large telehealth platform, where he watched good care shrink to fit an acquisition funnel. Left to build the opposite. Handles the parts of the company the clinicians don't want to think about.

§ 04Care team & advisors

Licensed, named, reachable. The person who writes your plan is the person who reads your reply.

Dr. S. Ramanathan, MD
Associate, Metabolic
Chris V., FNP-BC
Lead nurse, Intake
Terri L., RD
Registered dietitian
Dr. D. Patel, MD
Associate, Weight
Clinical advisory council
Dr. Angela Horowitz, MD
Bariatric endocrinology · UCSF alum
Dr. Reza Mahmoudi, MD, MPH
Public health · Formerly CDC obesity policy
Dr. Nadia Grant, MD
Women's metabolic health · Boston
Kenji Tanaka, PharmD
Compounding pharmacy oversight
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The best way to know what we mean is to try the intake. It takes about five minutes.